[arch-general] Does anyone find Compiz Fuscion eat up all Alt keys?

[Adam Vogt]

Compiz-Fusion has lots of keybindings; it is supposed to intercept all the 
keys that it is supposed to listen to.

Are you sure that compiz is intercepting _all_ keys with alt?

A basic test to see this would be to open a terminal, run cat, then type 
away, holding alt (under compiz of course).

You should then see nothing. If the keys are not intercepted, they look 
like ^[e for M-e..

* On Wednesday, March 05 2008, yueyu lin wrote:

>Hi, all
>   I found the CF in my machine ate up all alt keys besides the CF binding
>short cuts including Alt, such as Alt+F1,Alt+Tab,Alt+F2,etc.
>
>   The scenario is when I enable compiz fuscion in my laptop T61p with
>nvidia newest driver, everything works fine and smoothly except no more
>application short cuts containing Alt.
>   That means firefox doesn't have "Alt+F", "Alt+E", Emacs doesn't have
>"Alt+X". Especially for Emacs's "Alt+X", it's my most important things to
>use Emacs even use my laptop. So I have to disable compiz when I wanna use
>Emacs.
>
>  I really have no idea what happened even after searching internet. I found
>when I use xmodmap to add Alt_L to the mod4 even the Alt_L and Alt_R is
>already set to mod1, the application short cuts work but the compiz short
>cuts retire... which means "Alt+Tab" doesn't work.
>
>  The following is the output of my "xmodmap", I wish it would be helpful to
>identify the problem. Thanks.
>
>[yueyulin at t61p ~]$ xmodmap
>xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
>
>shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
>lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
>control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
>mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
>mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
>mod3
>mod4
>mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)
>
>-- 
>--
>Yueyu Lin